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DAVID WEINBERGER JUNE 9, 2012 Bake sale for NASA More than a dozen universities are holding bake sales for NASA. The aim is to raise awareness, not money. To me, NASA is a bit like a public library: No matter what, you want your town and your country to visibly declare their commitment to the value of human curiosity. The system works! Even if you don’t screw in the optical cables tightly | HAROLD JARCHE JUNE 9, 2012 Make the room smarter However, in most organizations, invisible power structures influence communications and the flow of knowledge. This is how much of the Web works. | DONALD CLARK PLAN B JUNE 9, 2012 Video assessment and certification: Italian ingenuity How do you know if a learner has watched a video or recorded lecture? It can be logged as having been viewed remotely but you have no guarantee that they have attentively watched it. You need some way of knowing they have actually watched the content. As a student you need to pay attention to the entire video to hear the numbers and write them down. | | | | | | | | | | -
DAVE SNOWDEN | SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 2012 HTLGI2012: Reverse Manichaeism This slogan is one of singularly most stupid ones I have ever seen on a badge or a T-shirt. Manichaeism developed in Persia and sees a conflict between the good world of light and the evil world of darkness. It manifested itself in the Albigensian heresy which was subject to a particularly brutal crusade in its Cathar manifestation. MORE >>
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